Beyond Sunday… Two bits of good news to report to you. St. Ann received its first share of the Beyond Sunday monies. As you remember, each parish receives 40% of the parish campaign total, distributed twice a year – once in March, for all the funds collected the...

Voices in the rectory after hours. Lights in the parish center after dark. People armed with scissors and staplers and fabric in the school cafeteria. The ringing of the doorbell. The smell of new wax wafting up through the church air returns. And extra loads for the...

The Courage to Love… It is an apropos Theme for this year’s Annual Catholic Appeal. Perhaps each generation has the same response as they age – the world seems a bit colder, a little sadder, a little less like the world they grew up in. As I age and see more grey on...

Sacramental moments… Toward the end of one of my days last week, I realized that in the space of two weeks and a day, through the sacramental ministry of the church, members of our parish will have experienced the indwelling of the entire Trinity. On Sunday, April...

Of the many, many things for which I am grateful here at St. Ann’s, our music at mass ranks right at the top. So, after our Choirs ran the musical equivalent of a marathon during the Triduum – in your name, let me say thanks to all who lent their voices and...

The Archbishop, the Pope and Fr. James Martin… Once more, Archbishop Carlson sends his Easter message to us, inviting us to remember the heart of this great feast. “Christ has overcome sin and death. Because of that we know, in the words of Pope Francis, that when...